Lead Software Engineer- Distributed Systems
Salesforce· CRM/Enterprise Software· Sep 16, 2026 · 1mo ago
San Francisco, CA
In office
Full-time
Lead
$208K–$286K
10+ years exp
Job description
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Software Engineering
Job Details
About Salesforce
Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we re looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce s core values at the heart of it all.
Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.
Salesforce powers some of the largest companies on the globe with its core CRM offering. One of the components of this infrastructure that helps achieve the global scale involves network software that provides optimized and secure connectivity - between our customers and the application, between our data centers and customer applications. The Connectivity and Edge teams are responsible for delivering many of the complex software products that deliver this experience to our customers. As our service and platform grow to fully embrace lights-out operations, single-click deploy to tens of thousands of nodes, and services that self-heal and self-optimize, we have to balance this with global scale and traffic distribution to enhance our end user experience.
Edge is hiring a backend Java engineer with distributed systems, micro-services, and public cloud experience to support this growth. The role will lead the design, development, testing, and operations of both the Edge Control plane service and the Edge Intelligence service. The Edge Control plane automates Edge enablement for our customers. Edge Intelligence provides Real-time analytics capabilities which is used to self-heal and self-optimize Edge and Connectivity services.
Some attributes of successful candidates
Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems
Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You’ll have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
Experience with managing large, complex systems in the cloud.
Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
Excited by building reliable, self-healing services on unreliable hardware
Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops in an agile environment
Be passionate about automation
Create, maintain and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members
Required Skills
10 years of engineering experience
Deep knowledge of object oriented programming and experience with at least one object oriented programming language, preferably Java.
Solid knowledge of Database technologies
Experience with Agile development methodology and Testing
Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence
In depth experience of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency
Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platforms
Experience with container orchestration systems Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet or Mesos
Experience owning and operating multiple instances of mission-critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with open source projects
SOAP/REST APIs and general API design
Knowledge of network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, etc.
Experience with Big data technologies like Spark, Kafka, Druid
CI/CD experience with Jenkins
Unleash Your Potential
When you join Salesforce, you’ll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best , and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best . Together, we’ll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future — but to redefine what’s possible — for yourself, for AI, and the world.
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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $172,500 - $260,100 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $207,800 - $285,800 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.
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